The Navajo Native Americans of Utah, Arizona, and New Mexico have one of the continent’s richest and most unique cultural heritages. Their customs are the best conserved in the United States. While other folk cultures have succumbed to acculturation, the Navajo have endured. Their language provided a new means of cultural preservation through literary tradition, ensuring the survival of their folk culture while others when extinct. Foreign dangers have damaged but not destroyed their cultural complex. The Navajo are now the most populous Native American group and control 27,000 square miles of land in their sovereign nation. The nation creates a means for spatial protection. Transculturation combines ancient tradition with modern globalized
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The Nation participates the larger economy of the United States while still continuing tradition. Within the government, social programs help ensure the culture’s survival. Transculturation, rather than acculturation has joined popular and Navajo cultures. Schools teach from the American curricula but follow customary education practices and teach the language. Citizens own and maintain modern popular housing for daily life and folk hogans for ceremony. Some Navajo people work in cottage-industry crafts of artifacts such as rugs and jewelry. Others work in the growing oil and gas industries. Though aspects of the modern economy have diffused into the Navajo lands, their ancient customs endure.
The Navajo culture is a valuable piece of the folk cultures of the United States. The Navajo people have secured their cultural survival through written language and sovereignty. Their survival and prosperity have demonstrated an effective resistance to cultural convergence. After enduring and weathering outside attempts at acculturation from Imperial Spain, Mexico, and the United States, the Navajo people continue to retain their ancient customs and
The Nation participates the larger economy of the United States while still continuing tradition. Within the government, social programs help ensure the culture’s survival. Transculturation, rather than acculturation has joined popular and Navajo cultures. Schools teach from the American curricula but follow customary education practices and teach the language. Citizens own and maintain modern popular housing for daily life and folk hogans for ceremony. Some Navajo people work in cottage-industry crafts of artifacts such as rugs and jewelry. Others work in the growing oil and gas industries. Though aspects of the modern economy have diffused into the Navajo lands, their ancient customs endure.
The Navajo culture is a valuable piece of the folk cultures of the United States. The Navajo people have secured their cultural survival through written language and sovereignty. Their survival and prosperity have demonstrated an effective resistance to cultural convergence. After enduring and weathering outside attempts at acculturation from Imperial Spain, Mexico, and the United States, the Navajo people continue to retain their ancient customs and